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From: ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: 9133D hard disk drive failure.
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.161027.4353@odi.com>
Date: 8 Jan 91 16:10:27 GMT
Organization: Object Design, Inc.
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I have a system from the dawn of time:  the original HP-110 "Nomad" laptop
computer, an HP-IL to HP-IB converter, and a 9133D 720K floppy/ 14 MB disk.
This is all circa 1984, and has run flawlessly until now.  The floppy is
still happy, but the hard disk now returns garbage from reads
(no errors, just bogus data) and reports "Media Error" when I try to do a
DOS format on it.

Any clues?  I suspect I may need to do a low-level format on the drive;
any idea how I go about doing that?